Example sentences of "[noun] have [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 2 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
| 3 | However , Syrian officials contended that with the signing of the treaty Syria had for the first time formally acknowledged Lebanon as an independent state . |
| 4 | However , the technology is moving very fast and , as pen computers come into common usage , prices will fall as dramatically as the prices of conventional computers have over the last couple of years . |
| 5 | I accept that the law has from the first appearance of corporations , in the absence of any relevant statutory direction , considered the question of a corporation 's right to sue for defamation by reference to the nature of the corporation itself and the need for the corporation to protect its lawful activities and property . |
| 6 | Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults . |
| 7 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 8 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 9 | The best chance Town had in the first half came from this corner and it came from skipper Colin Calderwood . |
| 10 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 11 | But also by 1967 , expenditure on education had for the first time in history equalled that on defence . |
| 12 | The UK government has for the first time ruled out the award of oil and gas exploration licences in certain areas on environmental grounds . |
| 13 | The deputy chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq , Robert Galucci , said in Bahrain on Jan. 14 that Iraq had for the first time admitted " pursuing a production-scale centrifuge enrichment programme rather than simply a research programme " , after UN inspectors confronted Iraqi officials with evidence supplied by Germany showing the involvement of German firms in this programme . |
| 14 | My Lords , er , er , er no doubt that all of your Lordships have throughout the last hour and forty minutes felt a great deal of sympathy with the Noble Earl Lord |
| 15 | The new hang has for the first time brought together the figures de fantaisie by Fragonard , the Louvre 's ninety-three Corots , thirty paintings by Chardin and thirteen by Watteau , as well as a rotating selection of the preparatory drawings by Le Brun for his decorative scheme for the Louvre . |
| 16 | To give a brief example , in Nepal population pressure has in the last decade or so brought about many intensifications of cropping patterns such as the introduction of wheat as a winter crop . |
| 17 | Coatings company International Lory has for the second time completed a year without a single lost day accident . |
| 18 | It would be most interesting to know if you can think of other potential members — our seminars have in the last year or two proved popular and have been extraordinarily cost effective . |
| 19 | The lands to the north and east of a line joining these two houses had in the ninth century been conquered and to some degree settled by pagan Scandinavians , who had destroyed the existing monasteries and several of the bishoprics , and such evidence as there is suggests that the Christianity practised within them retained aspects upon which the stricter kind of churchman would have frowned . |
| 20 | Many countries who received aid to introduce the Green Revolution had repressive regimes , whose policies had in the first place brought about the poverty . |
| 21 | The Yugoslavian authorities announced on Feb. 20 that Army units stationed in the province of Kosovo had for the first time been given specific orders to quell a renewed wave of unrest among ethnic Albanians in the province . |
| 22 | If such is the character of these places now , what must they have been like when both men and livestock could only get around them by boat , and parishes such as Dogdyke in Lincolnshire had in the eighteenth century ‘ not two houses communicable for whole winters round ’ . |
| 23 | Does he not recall the trouble that Clemens Krauss had with the last act at the at the 1944 dress rehearsal ? |
| 24 | It can thus be argued that Russia and Prussia have in the eighteenth century a very important and interesting administrative history but little real political , still less constitutional , history . |
| 25 | PAKISTANI authorities have for the first time begun arresting farmers in the North West Frontier Province who have been found planting opium for next year 's harvest . |
| 26 | South African authorities have for the first time permitted Mr Nelson Mandela to talk by telephone with exiled leaders of the African National Congress from the prison where he is held near Cape Town . |
| 27 | Yet the most sweeping changes and the most fertile inventions have in the last decade come from New York . |
| 28 | From 1865 , however , the foreign office had for the first time a department concerned entirely with commercial affairs . |